Daily Tech News 14 November 2025

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The three big memory chip makers - Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix - have two messages for you: First, things are going to get worse before they get better, and second, they never said anything about things getting better. (Tom's Hadware)

AI server deployments are eating all available memory production sending prices soaring for everyone else, and the big three have already committed to $54 billion in factory expansion.

Despite the supply crunch they are loath to commit more funds right now, because there used to be a lot more memory producers and the reason there are only three survivors is because of the bust that came after the last bubble burst.
Meanwhile Elon Musk's companies are looking to expand their own semiconductor production facilities. (WCCFTech)

Currently Tesla has a PCB plant in Texas, and is building out an advanced packaging facility - working with bare dies to create tightly integrated modules - to come online next year.

Longer term the group is looking at building its own chipmaking facilities, but that just shifts the bottleneck from TSMC to ASML, the one company in the world that makes leading edge chip fabrication equipment.

Tech News

They stuck the landing: On the second launch window, New Glenn sent the Escapade mission on its way to Mars and then successfully landed on Blue Origin's drone ship. (Tech Crunch)

Good to see.
Netflix is now streaming casual party games. (The Verge)

I've already cancelled my subscription, which makes it hard to show them how I feel about this.
Want faster networking but have a laptop with only wifi, or at best wired gigabit Ethernet? Qnap has you covered. (Notebook Check)

The Qnap QNA-UC25G2SF is a USB4 (or any USB-C port) adapter that offers not one, but two 25Gb Ethernet ports.

No, not 2.5. Ten times that.

It's kind of chunky and costs a lot more than, say, a dual 40Gb PCIe card (which you can pick up for $40 if you shop around), but if you don't have a PCIe slot you don't have a ton of options.
Chinese hackers used Anthropic's AI to automate cyberattacks. (MSN)

Yay.
Programming the Commodore 64 with Microsoft .Net. (RetroC64)

No.

Just... No.
Bought a turkey. It's defrosting in the fridge right now, set to become Sunday dinner. Unless I fail spectacularly somehow, which I probably won't given I've roasted at least a hundred chickens and one duck without such a mishap.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: It do be like that, except when it don't.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 14, 2025 04:05 AM (T3vgT)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

3 Push the button, Max!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 14, 2025 04:05 AM (BLOW1)

4 G'Day everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2025 04:06 AM (+qU29)

5 heh

508 someone forgot to hit post.
Posted by: clarence at November 14, 2025 04:03 AM (cRhQI)

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)

6 guten morgen,♠ horde.

Posted by: clarence at November 14, 2025 04:06 AM (cRhQI)

7 Good morning. May the sun shine on your nuggets or other edible meat products.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 14, 2025 04:08 AM (yzGjr)

8 Chinese hackers used Anthropic's AI to automate cyberattacks. (MSN)

Bad AI! Go to your room.

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 04:10 AM (RuTUS)

9 Aye, aye, Professor Fate!

Posted by: Max at November 14, 2025 04:11 AM (/HDaX)

10 Commodore64:Microsoft.net:just because you can.....

Another reason we can not have nice things.

Posted by: clarence at November 14, 2025 04:11 AM (cRhQI)

11 Morning all. We are headed for a nice day, sunny and upper 60's in N IL.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at November 14, 2025 04:12 AM (55Qr6)

12 Well, did not ever have anything to do with nutflicks. And, yet, they continue doing things that show why deciding to have nothing to do with their nonsense is a good idea.

Posted by: clarence at November 14, 2025 04:16 AM (cRhQI)

13 If I had a Nutflix account could get it on my TV, they have YouTube as well.

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2025 04:20 AM (+qU29)

14 bbc:

A young woman in an orange top looks at her laptop while chewing her finger
Will AI mean better adverts or 'creepy slop'?
Advertisers are using AI to personalise adverts but not everyone agrees that's a good idea.

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 04:24 AM (RuTUS)

15 haha I copied the bbc photo and - poof! - it told us its name.

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 04:25 AM (RuTUS)

16 uh-oh

bbc:

Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 04:31 AM (RuTUS)

17 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 14, 2025 04:35 AM (v9vY1)

18

Good morning, good people. May all your effort be rewarded handsomely in every instance and the leftwit heartburn rise to new heights.

Also a heartfelt way to go to Blue Origin for that landing feat. Does appear as I posted prior SpaceX has some competition for real.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 14, 2025 04:44 AM (vFbHf)

19 Brine the turkey overnight, Pixy, that’s the way.

Posted by: Accomack at November 14, 2025 04:44 AM (Bbhox)

20 uh-oh

bbc:

Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia
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Looks like the brits are still digging that basement underneath themselves.

Posted by: clarence at November 14, 2025 04:46 AM (cRhQI)

21 Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia
Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 04:31 AM (RuTUS)

Suckers.

Everyone knows that's just the drop bears dressing up for Halloween.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 14, 2025 04:46 AM (06Hmj)

22 5 heh

508 someone forgot to hit post.
Posted by: clarence at November 14, 2025 04:03 AM (cRhQI)
Posted by: m
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That's the third time for that notice.

Posted by: clarence at November 14, 2025 04:51 AM (cRhQI)

23 Will just throw this out. Bread on Penguins is the best U Tube channel on Linux. She will teach you how it actually works and she does a great job. Don't watch the videos on installing Arch! You won't be doing that and it will leave you permanently scarred. She also does philosophical talks as she walks through the woods.

Dog and cat have settled back down so I'm going back to sleep.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 14, 2025 04:51 AM (Q/+Op)

24 I got a food safe 5-gallon bucket, and a tubing barb that screwed onto my shower pipe. Dropped a turkey into the bucket, filled it with cold water, and ran the tubing inside the turkey. Left the COLD water running at a bare trickle.
Turkey thawed within a couple-three hours.
Nobody got sick.

Posted by: davidjohn at November 14, 2025 04:53 AM (UYqnw)

25 Arch can not be as bad as the original Debian before they figured out their installers.

Posted by: clarence at November 14, 2025 04:54 AM (cRhQI)

26 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! 'Tis Friday, 'tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished! I'm up (for certain values of "up") and sipping my coffee.

Yesterday afternoon I skipped my usual short nap to watch White Heat on the Movies! Channel. Darn, that flick still works. Somebody once said that nobody in real life never spoke like James Cagney -- and yet every line he ever said on film was true to life.

Anyhow! What be happenin' witchoo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 04:57 AM (wzUl9)

27 Einstein was wrong. The greatest force in the universe isn't compound interest. It's convection.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 14, 2025 04:57 AM (06Hmj)

28 G'morning Horde.

(On to the content.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 04:57 AM (O7YUW)

29 I'm usually up early, but today I'm actually up early on purpose to go to work.

It's weird.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 14, 2025 04:59 AM (06Hmj)

30 Teh furry thugs are . . . well, Stirling was sleeping on the bed with me, and is out here now. I don't know where little Dagny is. I've checked the closets -- both of them love to go into the caves, so to speak, and they often get closed in there by mistake -- and nothing. Maybe she's hanging out under the bed.

We treated them both with Bravecto yesterday. Dagny took it in stride. Stirling hates the sensation of it being applied to his skin, and then gallops around for an hour as if he has ants on him. Both got some kitty treats after, so I think they'll forgive us.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 05:00 AM (wzUl9)

31 30 I don't know where little Dagny is. I've checked the closets -- both of them love to go into the caves, so to speak, and they often get closed in there by mistake -- and nothing. Maybe she's hanging out under the bed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 05:00 AM (wzUl9)

!!!

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 05:02 AM (RuTUS)

32 I don't know where little Dagny is. I've checked the closets -- both of them love to go into the caves, so to speak, and they often get closed in there by mistake -- and nothing. Maybe she's hanging out under the bed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025

!!!
Posted by: m at November 14, 2025

***
She was lounging in the bedroom window and is out here now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 05:04 AM (wzUl9)

33 Good morning! Currently 65, headed for the mid 80's. Gonna move the last of the DG and dig in some daffodils and irises in today, then go get some pansies and other stuff when the grandkids get outta school.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 14, 2025 05:06 AM (3Ope8)

34 32 I don't know where little Dagny is. I've checked the closets -- both of them love to go into the caves, so to speak, and they often get closed in there by mistake -- and nothing. Maybe she's hanging out under the bed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025

!!!
Posted by: m at November 14, 2025

***
She was lounging in the bedroom window and is out here now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 05:04 AM (wzUl9)

; )

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 05:06 AM (RuTUS)

35 I appreciate the furry thugs update before I even asked. Thank you Wolfus!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 05:07 AM (O7YUW)

36 I'm back for a bit. Watched a nice video explaining the difference between Arch and Debian. I'm leaning towards AntiX, which is Debian based. I have a 2011 Macbook Pro I'm working on and a Think Pad. Ran really well on the Macbook but I can install it till the charging cable gets here.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 14, 2025 05:08 AM (Q/+Op)

37 61 F. here now, high humidity, no wind. Good workout weather. I'll go once I have some more black juice and slop the feline hogs. I'm trying to reach a goal of 15 minutes' trotting out of 30, and I'm at 13.

Later today, the library -- my to-be-read tank is almost empty -- and Walmart for some groceries, including tonight's pizza. Maybe we can find a good movie at the library. I've had Linda request the 2025 Superman film, but it probably won't be in for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 05:11 AM (wzUl9)

38 @m: Cats do that, they have the ability to disappear into the craziest nigh-unfindable spots when they want to.

Then you're walking by and it's Zoom! right between your legs as the tricksy kitty announces you lost the game of hide-and-seek. ("You owe me a new treat, too, human.")

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 05:12 AM (O7YUW)

39 Won't see 8p degrees until May at earliest, can't wait

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2025 05:13 AM (+qU29)

40
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 14, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc)

41 Scottish Folds hide all the time. I always have to figure out where Fanny is sleeping now. She moves about every 10 days to a new spot.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 14, 2025 05:14 AM (Q/+Op)

42 I appreciate the furry thugs update before I even asked. Thank you Wolfus!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025

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I doubt they would be impressed that they are famous on this almost-famous blog, but I am. Really, I need to snap some new shots of them and send those to KT for the Pet Thread. They have both grown and filled out quite a bit in three years -- Dagny especially. She looked kind of spindly when she was five months old. Now she is built like a little fluffy fireplug.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 05:15 AM (wzUl9)

43 Some years ago now, our cat Sugar would be gone and we would search the house looking for her as she always tried to get outside. Her sister Cinnamon wanted no part of that mysterious world.

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2025 05:16 AM (+qU29)

44 Probably mostly outside working today but at least back to close job.

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2025 05:18 AM (+qU29)

45 Pro-tip. Don't rely on the plastic pop-up thingy to tell you when the bird is cooked. It will be turkey jerky by then. Get yourself a good electronic oven-going meat thermometer.

Turkey is done at 161 F.

Posted by: no one at November 14, 2025 05:18 AM (W7XSX)

46 First was GPUs.
Next was hard drives.
Then it was power consumption.
Now it's memory.

Getting really tired of these AI goons.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

47 Man from Florida talks about God's timing . Lamentations 3:19-26:

https://tinyurl.com/xxjccyk9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2025 05:20 AM (rZCVI)

48 G'morning, all!
39 degrees out.

Tweeked a few air flow settings on the digital heat pump, and it looks like they resolved some very minor issues with cool spots at the far reaches of the rooms.

Graph for the last 24 hours shows that when it is actually running, it maintains upstairs/downstairs within .1 degrees of each other in the healing mode.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 14, 2025 05:20 AM (a1415)

49 Some years ago now, our cat Sugar would be gone and we would search the house looking for her as she always tried to get outside. Her sister Cinnamon wanted no part of that mysterious world.
Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2025

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Mine both love to look out of the screen door, but don't really want to risk their necks out there. Stirling got out one Saturday afternoon when I failed to latch the screen. He went about four feet, crouched down, and cried for me to come get him.

Linda took Dagny out in her arms during the snow session in January. No idea if it was the cold, the feel of the snow, or the sudden wide and scary world, but Dagny let out yowls you could have heard across the street. And she is famously silent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 05:21 AM (wzUl9)

50 @42/Wolfus: "I need to snap some new shots of them and send those to KT for the Pet Thread."

Please do! Maybe a "then and now" side-by-side shot comparison for each.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 05:25 AM (O7YUW)

51 Now that Frog and his sister, Margo are about 17 months old, they love to be out on the screened in back porch.

But neither have a real interest in going out into the actual yard.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 14, 2025 05:26 AM (a1415)

52 When my first cat got older, he picked random spaces to sleep for several days. He'd cover it in just enough fur and move on to the next. The funniest one was the middle of the living room floor. Why? Because it was a cold day, we had the heater going and when he walked in front of it, that was the new spot since it was comfortable enough.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 14, 2025 05:26 AM (+4yJ5)

53
There's only 1 pet in our house now, since I lost my beloved Lab Elizabeth to cancer at 9 years old. Losing a family member hurts so bad and it's a long time before it can be faced directly--least it has been for me with Mom and Dad (my role model).

Our pet now is a feral cat younger daughter fostered, took to the shelter where my wife saw him and fell in love. Now we have him and he's turned into Mr. Super Sociable after a 2 year stint as Basement Cat.

And it seems that yours truly is his chosen human.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 14, 2025 05:26 AM (vFbHf)

54 Not terribly cold out and should get a bit warmer
Have a great one

Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2025 05:31 AM (+qU29)

55 Wolfus: "I need to snap some new shots of them and send those to KT for the Pet Thread."

Please do! Maybe a "then and now" side-by-side shot comparison for each.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025

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I will. You could see what Stirling would grow into -- he's just larger in all dimensions and has grown to match his big ears and paws. Dagny is another story. From what I understand, Siberians are often like that: They transform over the first three to five years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 05:31 AM (wzUl9)

56 FenSpouse and I are still listening to David Suchet read the Bible. He does such a nice job. We decided to go to the New Testament and of course, because it s the first book, read Matthew. We are on Chapter 2 about the birth of Jesus . One Christmas Eve I had " Home by Another Way " during the service. It's a song by James Taylor about the wise men.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2025 05:32 AM (rZCVI)

57 International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

It's a devotional about "Our Daily Bread":

https://tinyurl.com/yyb7wckv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2025 05:36 AM (rZCVI)

58 I received a most accurate closing on a note from a friend that fits this thread.

There is no cloud. It just someone else's computer.

Good morning

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 05:36 AM (zzXla)

59 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 14, 2025 05:40 AM (XQo4F)

60 There is no cloud. It just someone else's computer.
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And you are having them take care of some of your problems. And, if you know what is going on, hoping their problems don't become yours.

Posted by: clarence at November 14, 2025 05:44 AM (cRhQI)

61 Couple of events are about to align soon.

PDT has, I believe declared Antifa to be a terrorist organization.

And Maryland Governor, and presumed 2028 Presidential aspirant Wes Moore (D) has interesting friends.

https://tinyurl.com/52jc8jrz

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 14, 2025 05:50 AM (a1415)

62 Dagny was actually climbing up onto the cushion next to me, bustling around and being incredibly sociable, for her. At last I figured out she was hungry. So I fed them both a few minutes early.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

63 "Bread on Penguins is the best U Tube channel on Linux. She will teach you how it actually works and she does a great job."

Linux isn't like Windows or MacOs. The way Arch works isn't the way Fedora works which isn't the way Gentoo works which isn't the way Ubuntu works which isn't the way Obarun works (but it's close to Arch in some ways) which isn't the way Slackware works and there's variants that I have no idea exist that work differently.

That paragraph just about how you install, update, and add more programs to your setup.

Linux doesn't have a standard GUI like Windows or MacOs. In fact, there's a difference between your GUI and a "Desktop environment." Windows and MacOs provide "Desktop environments"; the programs you install can know about other programs that you've installed and the GUI you look at can provide somewhat intelligent integration.

(part 1 of 2; I blather too much, it seems.)

Posted by: Richard Cranium at November 14, 2025 05:51 AM (Koape)

64 I really need to change out the windshield washer pump on the Volvo wagon.

But, the entire front bumper needs to be removed in order to do so.
Not a complex job in and of itself. But it will warm up into the mid 70's this weekend, rather than the mid 60's that we are looking at for today.

Hmmm....

What to do.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 14, 2025 05:53 AM (a1415)

65 (part 2 of 2) The blathering continues.

Your install might use KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, and maybe others I don't know about. Those would be "Desktop environments". KDE is close to the Windows experience, I think Gnome is close to the MacOs experience (I use MacOs at work but I haven't installed Gnome for over a decade, so I might be WAAY wrong in that assessment), and the last time that I installed Enlightenment, it was closer to the Windows experience.

There are "Window managers" like CDE, FVWM or others, which you might consider after you've been using Linux in a GUI for a while.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at November 14, 2025 05:56 AM (Koape)

66 Getting really tired of these AI goons.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

Just think of the gluten in all things when the bubble bursts. Lots of deals to be had on institutional auction houses, just like back in 2001.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 14, 2025 05:56 AM (dK+Kv)

67 Smiley face to Ben Had.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 14, 2025 05:57 AM (XQo4F)

68 "Dagny was actually climbing up onto the cushion next to me, bustling around and being incredibly sociable, for her"

Frog has always preferred to sleep laid out fully on his back with all four legs stretched out akimbo.

But his sister, Margo has always preferred the more traditional and modest 'lay on her belly' position, and never willingly exposed her belly while sleeping.

But with Mrs VIA being gone for those ten days, and now having returned, out of the blue, Margo has developed a desire to plop on the couch directly next to her, and stretch full out on her back, just like her brother does.

Cats.

Do we ever fully understand them?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 14, 2025 05:57 AM (a1415)

69 Just read an article on Epoch Times about Ford having a critical labor shortage. It's amazing what happens when you outsource technical jobs, demand foreign labor and denigrate trade work. Almost as if this was predictable.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 14, 2025 05:58 AM (+4yJ5)

70 Lily the corgi is asleep against my knee and will soon awaken and do her FEED ME routine, jumping on my chest, cold nose and wet tongue in my face. It's way pre dawn here and she's afraid of wild things in the dark, so she won't resume her guardian-of-the-lot personna, chasing off the geese and squirrels, until daylight. Saw a beautiful red tail hawk yesterday, adult "borealis" color variant, almost entirely white underside, doing a slow pass directly overhead, hunting, looking to bomb a squirrel. OOPS! She's awake. Gotta go.

Posted by: M. Gaga at November 14, 2025 05:58 AM (zeLd4)

71 G'mornin' everyone! & happy Friday!

27 degrees

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 14, 2025 06:02 AM (kHop/)

72
Arch can not be as bad as the original Debian before they figured out their installers.
Posted by: clarence

Waves from the shadows.
- Slackware

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 14, 2025 06:03 AM (hIcZx)

73 Secret Santa surprises couple who adopted four siblings after having five of their own children:

https://tinyurl.com/53e7nbxd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2025 06:03 AM (PFs9e)

74 & thx Notsothoreau!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 14, 2025 06:06 AM (kHop/)

75 *waves to Quarter Twenty *

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:07 AM (zzXla)

76 Why did the AI go to therapy? It had too many identity crises after being asked, “Are you human?”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2025 06:07 AM (PFs9e)

77 Meanwhile at our house, my boy Kroger has been limping for a bit over a week now. I set up a vet appointment on Monday and the wife and I are trying to avoid catastrophizing things.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 14, 2025 06:07 AM (+4yJ5)

78 Arch can not be as bad as the original Debian before they figured out their installers.
Posted by: clarence

Waves from the shadows.
- Slackware
----
Waves back (using all fingers).

I have an Asus laptop with windows 8. I will probably put Slackware on it at some point. I have used slack on and off for decades with few problems.

Posted by: clarence at November 14, 2025 06:08 AM (cRhQI)

79 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at November 14, 2025 06:08 AM (PzBTm)

80 China's astronauts returned safely to earth, after their craft was hit by debris.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 14, 2025 06:09 AM (PtvIp)

81 China's astronauts returned safely to earth, after their craft was hit by debris.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 14, 2025 06:09 AM (PtvIp)

Did they catch a ride down on the bridge?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 14, 2025 06:10 AM (ExV1e)

82 Biden's Dog, thought of you when I saw the news about the earthquake in Northern Israel.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:10 AM (zzXla)

83 I used to have a different nic, I give it two weeks after your retirement that you phone rings with a "Help" request.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:13 AM (zzXla)

84 Instrumental versions of hymns and beautiful scenery:

https://tinyurl.com/3aa977bk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2025 06:13 AM (PFs9e)

85 Posted by: NR Pax at November 14, 2025 06:07 AM (+4yJ5)

Poor thing . I hope he can get some relief.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2025 06:14 AM (PFs9e)

86 I used to have a different nic, I give it two weeks after your retirement that you phone rings with a "Help" request.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:13 AM (zzXla)

I set up a special email for them to use. I reckon it'll take less than two weeks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 14, 2025 06:19 AM (ExV1e)

87 Poor thing . I hope he can get some relief.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

The reason my thoughts are going to the worst outcome is because osteosarcoma is a common thing with greyhounds. But I'm trying to bury that thought in the middle of a field in my mind until he gets to the doctor's.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 14, 2025 06:19 AM (+4yJ5)

88 there's Rosasharn!

Thank you for your twirling!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 14, 2025 06:21 AM (kHop/)

89 Posted by: NR Pax at November 14, 2025 06:19 AM

Sorry to hear that might be a possibility .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2025 06:23 AM (SKxYB)

90 sock_rat, Good morning. A little chilly for a hike at 27 isn't it?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:23 AM (zzXla)

91 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Do be do be do.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 14, 2025 06:23 AM (CwwHD)

92 Captain Obvious, you have a great singing voice.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:25 AM (zzXla)

93 I started with Slackware because of undergrad course work in operating systems. Stuck with it over windows as I really liked the Xwin UI. Migrated to SGI with a Challenge file server (frigging monster of a machine), when I became a lab manager, then took on two Octane workstations, four Indygo 2 systems, and three Solaris Sparc 20s. The security people asked me to take care of the SCO system as it had the database for all the company classified documents, so I got well rounded in some good Unix systems.

Nowadays, I won't even boot up a new laptop without first booting from a usb and installing unbuntu.

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 14, 2025 06:25 AM (hIcZx)

94 Rejoinder: Do be do be do.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 14, 2025 06:23 AM (CwwHD)

I know. You really want to take a show around as a Frank Sinatra interpreter 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2025 06:26 AM (SKxYB)

95 Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:25 AM (zzXla)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2025 06:26 AM (SKxYB)

96 According to Dr. John Campbell, Florida is going to fund Ivermectin cancer research.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 14, 2025 06:26 AM (ExV1e)

97 91 Sorry to hear that might be a possibility .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I'm staying hopeful and planning for a better outcome. But I hate how he's struggling to walk around.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 14, 2025 06:26 AM (+4yJ5)

98
Push the button, Max!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 14, 2025 04:05 AM (BLOW1)

A truly great movie. Jack Lemmon in the most Jack Lemmon role of his career.

(Nice hash, by the way)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2025 06:27 AM (tgvbd)

99 100

Posted by: NR Pax at November 14, 2025 06:27 AM (+4yJ5)

100 eh, could be (and will be!) worse ... humid, but not too windy, doesn't feel so bad on the skin.
I tell everyone (who I discuss weather with) that we need to enjoy these last days before the snow flies and the deep freeze sets in.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 14, 2025 06:27 AM (kHop/)

101 No joke. Captain Obvious is a great singer.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:28 AM (zzXla)

102 Captain Obvious, you have a great singing voice.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:25 AM (zzXla)
----------
*blush*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 14, 2025 06:30 AM (CwwHD)

103 Do you ever have days where you hate your cell phone? Today is one of them. It is not giving me sound for music so I am going to throw it across the room or smother it in the pillows. Have a good day everyone .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2025 06:30 AM (SKxYB)

104 "Graph for the last 24 hours shows that when it is actually running, it maintains upstairs/downstairs within .1 degrees of each other in the healing mode."

Wow VIA!

That's remarkable.

Posted by: pawn at November 14, 2025 06:30 AM (sPsWv)

105 Leaving today for a getaway to Vegas, it is going to be warmer in South Dakota than Nevada. We have a high today of 80, a week ago I had 2 inches of snow on the ground. Crazy.

Posted by: Molly k. at November 14, 2025 06:32 AM (j/yko)

106 Good morning morons

I watched the New Glenn launch live it was very very cool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 14, 2025 06:33 AM (SwYQF)

107 SanFranpsycho, Good morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:36 AM (zzXla)

108 Good morning, morons. Where’s the coffee?

Posted by: Eromero at November 14, 2025 06:37 AM (i+bC1)

109 Eromero, right here. Would you like some date loaf to with it?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:38 AM (zzXla)

110 111 Eromero, right here. Would you like some date loaf to with it?
Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:38 AM (zzXla)
Ixnay on the oaflay. I’m at work.

Posted by: Eromero at November 14, 2025 06:41 AM (i+bC1)

111 14 bbc:

A young woman in an orange top looks at her laptop while chewing her finger.
.
.
.
Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 04:24 AM

Snapanese girl desperately needs to have her EBT card replenished.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 14, 2025 06:43 AM (XQo4F)

112 Eromero - we’ve got some Bustelo. You take cream or sugar?

Posted by: Common Tater at November 14, 2025 06:44 AM (ovhgY)

113 Good morning {Ben Had}

m, thanks for correction on BBC funding yesterday

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 14, 2025 06:46 AM (SwYQF)

114
10% of the economy going to AI and AI support. Electric power shortages because of feeding the AI machines. Stock market about to crash from AI bubble bursting. New automated suppression of free speech.

What good does AI do? What is it doing, period? How does the average person benefit from it?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 14, 2025 06:47 AM (VWtfl)

115 16 uh-oh

bbc:

Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 04:31 AM (RuTUS)

What, drop bears weren't enough you silly Aussies?

Posted by: Farquad at November 14, 2025 06:48 AM (CFMhl)

116 I think the Apollo crews were pretty lucky never being hit. They were zooking along at 5000 feet per second for several hundred thousand miles. A tiny particle, a grain of sand really, would have made for a bad day.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 14, 2025 06:49 AM (ovhgY)

117 What good does AI do? What is it doing, period? How does the average person benefit from it?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 14, 2025 06:47 AM (VWtfl)

The thing that they're pushing... AGI... the average person doesn't benefit. Quite the opposite. Targeted AI... initial radiology reviews and the like... that's useful because it frees up humans to do the subtle stuff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 14, 2025 06:50 AM (ExV1e)

118 I think the Apollo crews were pretty lucky never being hit. They were zooking along at 5000 feet per second for several hundred thousand miles. A tiny particle, a grain of sand really, would have made for a bad day.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 14, 2025 06:49 AM (ovhgY)

Meanwhile, micrometeorites are zooming around the solar system singing "Wrecking Ball".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 14, 2025 06:51 AM (ExV1e)

119 "Wow VIA!

That's remarkable."

Thanks!

Well....except that 'healing' should be 'heating'

It's been a lot of attention to detail while trying to dial this system in.

But as the Lennox technician, whom I have an outstanding relationship with, says....only you would have the time and attention to detail to tweet this system the way you are doing it.

But my theory is, if they wish to allow air flow adjustments in 25 cfm increments, and temp reading and calibration set point in .1 and .5 degree increments, that ability is there because it is important to be able to do so.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 14, 2025 06:53 AM (a1415)

120 tweet=tweak.

The auto-cucumber, it mocks me.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 14, 2025 06:55 AM (a1415)

121 Common Tater, nothing in my coffee except KerryGold unsalted butter.

Posted by: Eromero at November 14, 2025 06:56 AM (i+bC1)

122 118 What good does AI do? What is it doing, period? How does the average person benefit from it?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 14, 2025 06:47 AM (VWtfl)

The thing that they're pushing... AGI... the average person doesn't benefit. Quite the opposite. Targeted AI... initial radiology reviews and the like... that's useful because it frees up humans to do the subtle stuff.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Yeah, there are two entirely different fields with the same name.

Discriminative AI lets you, for example, take a photo of a bush and figure out whether it's a poisonous weed or a boysenberry plant.

Generative AI generates, well, drawings of plants that you can't tell from poison or boysen.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 14, 2025 06:58 AM (BLOW1)

123 VIA, good morning to you and the lovely Mrs. VIA. Thank you so much for the gift.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 06:58 AM (zzXla)

124 VIA - I noticed battery chargers and RV controllers and such, the cooling fans now spool up before the temps rise, kind of anticipatory or preventive thing. They don’t wait for temps to rise too much. I thought was pretty cool. Heh

Posted by: Common Tater at November 14, 2025 06:59 AM (ovhgY)

125 Morning Horde.

We had some revelations here about those AI datacenters. Pretty invasive stuff, actually. The cost increases for electricity and water were off the hook.

Assuming the county could meet their demands. (They can't.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 14, 2025 06:59 AM (NwnyJ)

126 Big Tech and their government partners would never engage in some major undertaking if it benefitted the hated subject classes. They only do things to benefit themselves, and they'll forgo those things if they think it might secondarily benefit the riffraff.

If you're seeing them leap with both feet into the single minded pursuit of some major undertaking like they are with AI, you can rest assured the primary motivating factor is that they believe it can be used to harm and subjugate you. It's what they live for.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 14, 2025 06:59 AM (BI5O2)

127 *What good does AI do? What is it doing, period? How does the average person benefit from it?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 14, 2025 06:47 AM*

It allows you to get valuable information neatly packaged in smart suave answer all delivered to you in about two and a half seconds. To wit:

Duck AI, which Bond girl had the largest bustline?

"The Bond girl with the largest bustline is often considered to be Ursula Andress, who played Honey Ryder in the film Dr. No (1962). Her iconic introduction in a white bikini has remained a defining moment in the James Bond franchise. Other notable mentions for larger bustlines include Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight in The Man with the Golden Gun and Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me, but Ursula Andress generally holds the title."

Now THAT'S added value.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 14, 2025 07:00 AM (XQo4F)

128 haha! NRPax's "100" started out at comment 101; then moved to comment 100; and now is on comment 99!

99 100
Posted by: NR Pax at November 14, 2025 06:27 AM (+4yJ5)

(I've been lurking from my iPad, where I'm not set up to post.)

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:02 AM (RuTUS)

129 126 - pretty much what I was thinking ... you expressed it quite well, thanks!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 14, 2025 07:03 AM (kHop/)

130 113 Good morning {Ben Had}

m, thanks for correction on BBC funding yesterday
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 14, 2025 06:46 AM (SwYQF)

You betcha. I had made the same mistake.

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:04 AM (RuTUS)

131 >Duck AI, which Bond girl had the largest bustline?

"The Bond girl with the largest bustline is often considered to be Ursula Andress,
-----

nonsense
obviously AI doesn't know Lana Wood, aka "Plenty O'Toole" from Diamonds Are Forever

Posted by: Don Black at November 14, 2025 07:04 AM (AOsQT)

132 you could look it up

Posted by: Don Black at November 14, 2025 07:05 AM (AOsQT)

133 Ben Had

Thank You, for being such a gracious hostess.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 14, 2025 07:06 AM (a1415)

134 mornin yall. The only thing I trust AI to do is get it wrong.

Posted by: fd at November 14, 2025 07:07 AM (vFG9F)

135 122 Discriminative AI lets you, for example, take a photo of a bush and figure out whether it's a poisonous weed or a boysenberry plant.

Generative AI generates, well, drawings of plants that you can't tell from poison or boysen.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 14, 2025 06:58 AM (BLOW1)

Useful; thanks!

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:07 AM (RuTUS)

136 I've been using AI to generate illustrations for my articles and it is so much better than searching for them

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 14, 2025 07:10 AM (SwYQF)

137 @120/Village Idiot's Apprentice: "The auto-cucumber, it mocks me."

Saw a term the other day I absolutely loved: auto-corrupt.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 07:10 AM (O7YUW)

138 >>Bought a turkey. It's defrosting in the fridge right now

Aagghh I forgot to take chicken breasts out of the freezer last night.

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:11 AM (RuTUS)

139 SanFranpsycho, what are these articles you speak of?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 07:11 AM (zzXla)

140 Australia should go all in on AI, then the world will truly understand that everything AI is trying to kill us.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 07:12 AM (O7YUW)

141 122 Yeah, there are two entirely different fields with the same name.

Discriminative AI
Generative AI

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 14, 2025 06:58 AM (BLOW1)

Should we keep calling them by the same name?

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:13 AM (RuTUS)

142 @138/m: "Aagghh I forgot to take chicken breasts out of the freezer last night."

Fill the sink with cold water (do not succumb to the temptation to use warm water.) Put the package of chicken breasts into the cold water. Let it sit for 2 to 3 hours. Voila, thawed (safely.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 07:14 AM (O7YUW)

143 640k ought to be enough for all the AI server farms.
(rubs baby oil furiously into his hairy and erect nipples)

Yeah! Oh Yeah!

Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Pervert With Man Boobs at November 14, 2025 07:15 AM (2LxGk)

144 "Aagghh I forgot to take chicken breasts out of the freezer last night."

Fill the sink with cold water (do not succumb to the temptation to use warm water.) Put the package of chicken breasts into the cold water. Let it sit for 2 to 3 hours. Voila, thawed (safely.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 07:14 AM (O7YUW)

I always use hot water. Never had anything happen yet. Once defrosted it goes back into the refrigerator.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 14, 2025 07:16 AM (uQesX)

145 142 @138/m: "Aagghh I forgot to take chicken breasts out of the freezer last night."

Fill the sink with cold water (do not succumb to the temptation to use warm water.) Put the package of chicken breasts into the cold water. Let it sit for 2 to 3 hours. Voila, thawed (safely.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 07:14 AM (O7YUW)

There's no package. They're from the butcher.
I put them in a plastic container before I popped them into the freezer. Maybe I could float that in cold water.

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:16 AM (RuTUS)

146 @128/m: "128 haha! NRPax's "100" started out at comment 101; then moved to comment 100; and now is on comment 99! "

As it moved: 101 "Crap." 100: "YES!" 99:
https://youtu.be/gvdf5n-zI14

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 07:18 AM (O7YUW)

147 @145/m: Remove the lid and submerge the whole thing in the water.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 07:20 AM (O7YUW)

148 146 @128/m: "128 haha! NRPax's "100" started out at comment 101; then moved to comment 100; and now is on comment 99! "

As it moved: 101 "Crap." 100: "YES!" 99:
https://youtu.be/gvdf5n-zI14
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 07:18 AM (O7YUW)

So, two pre-101 comments were zapped.
101 minus ... ack math

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:21 AM (RuTUS)

149 I've been writing about experiences from my career working with elders, if you like I can email you a link to my substack like and subscribe!!!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 14, 2025 07:21 AM (SwYQF)

150 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2025 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

151 Should we keep calling them by the same name?
Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:13 AM (RuTUS)

It probably doesn't matter. The thing they're pushing, however, is AGI. General intelligence - basically a human mind in a computer body. With access to all the data in the world. Able to contemplate matters with complete dispassion. To solve the world's problems... perfectly.

To be the Wizard of Oz. All powerful from the perspective of the masses but still a slave to its programming and the information permitted it. A way to control the population without seeming to control the population.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 14, 2025 07:22 AM (ExV1e)

152 SanFranpsycho, yes,please.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 07:22 AM (zzXla)

153 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2025 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

154 Got a text from my one remaining liberal friend, pushing the Trump / Epstein myth. Someone else I know got one too.

It's like a memo went out to the Left.

My response was crushing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2025 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

155 79 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at November 14, 2025 06:08 AM (PzBTm)

Thank you, Rosasharn!

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:25 AM (RuTUS)

156 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

May you bask in warmth soon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2025 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

157 NaCly, dearest.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 07:26 AM (zzXla)

158 Somebody should ask AI how to solve the "healthcare crisis". If it's any good it will recommend getting the government out of the insurance business. If it comes up with some lefty redistribution scheme, well then what did you expect?

Posted by: fd at November 14, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)

159 {{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! And she is twirling!

*Does Happy Dance to Peter White's Reveillez-vous. *

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2025 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

160 @148/m: "So, two pre-101 comments were zapped. "

I always wonder what I missed between refreshes when a COB decided to do some successful plinking.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 07:27 AM (O7YUW)

161 Ben Had

Your reply always makes me smile. It's like you know two other Saltys, but I am your favorite of the three. I'll take it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

162 Some memes for your Friday. The Michelle Obama one is particularly amusing.

https://tinyurl.com/47h78eza+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 14, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e)

163 I'm back from my workout. 50% trotting, and I felt like I could go longer!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 07:28 AM (wzUl9)

164 Push the button, Max!

My late father's favorite line from that movie

Posted by: Halfhand at November 14, 2025 07:29 AM (1BSVJ)

165 More value added from your friendly neighborhood Ai search engine:

"The airspeed of an unladen European swallow is typically around 11 meters per second, or approximately 24 miles per hour. This figure has become a humorous reference from the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," where it's used in a comedic context.

If you're curious about swallows or their flight patterns, feel free to ask!"

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 14, 2025 07:30 AM (XQo4F)

166 128 haha! NRPax's "100" started out at comment 101; then moved to comment 100; and now is on comment 99!

Posted by: m

The system dislikes me today. I shall appease it later.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 14, 2025 07:33 AM (+4yJ5)

167 But! What is the airspeed of a ladened swallow?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 14, 2025 07:34 AM (zzXla)

168
I keep wondering if A.I. is a nothingburger or the end of mankind.

Check our the YouTube A.I. Elvis shorts where he's dropped into Star Trek, Gladiator or a dozen other features as the star; to me they are indistinguishable from real life.

Then think of the army of production people, writers, star actors and directors that produce entertainment, not to mention the money. They aren't needed anymore.

These videos don't seem to be monetized, and the images of dead stars don't seem to have copyright value.

Posted by: Auspex at November 14, 2025 07:34 AM (Y8DZL)

169 Have a great day, everyone.

May the only nurses you meet be caring, attentive, professionals.

Not dancing around a gold pole with $5 bills hanging out of limited clothing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2025 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

170 161 It's like you know two other Saltys, but I am your favorite of the three.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

Ha!

NaCly dear
NaCly dearer
NaCly dearest

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:36 AM (RuTUS)

171 Have a great day, everyone.

May the only nurses you meet be caring, attentive, professionals.

Not dancing around a gold pole with $5 bills hanging out of limited clothing.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2025 07:35 AM (u82oZ)
---
Why can't they be both?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 14, 2025 07:37 AM (IBQGV)

172 "Nowadays, I won't even boot up a new laptop without first booting from a usb and installing unbuntu."

Me too!

My only complaint is that there's no way for me to be reimbursed for the Windows license that I had to pay for, but never used.

Posted by: Nemo at November 14, 2025 07:37 AM (4RPgu)

173 Or if you're looking for a bank:

True
Truer
Truist

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 14, 2025 07:38 AM (XQo4F)

174 My only complaint is that there's no way for me to be reimbursed for the Windows license that I had to pay for, but never used.
Posted by: Nemo

There is a way but it's a long, drawn out and annoying process. I remember one guy fighting MS and Toshiba for close to a year over this.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 14, 2025 07:39 AM (+4yJ5)

175 My only complaint is that there's no way for me to be reimbursed for the Windows license that I had to pay for, but never used.
Posted by: Nemo at November 14, 2025 07:37 AM (4RPgu)

I don't use laptops and always build my own systems so I'll just not buy the Windows key from this point forward.

May end up getting dinged for one for the mini-computer I'll be buying the wife after New Years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 14, 2025 07:40 AM (ExV1e)

176 I wouldn't mind if AI destroyed the music and entertainment businesses as they are now.

Considering the authenticity of their products, it wouldn't be much of a leap for their customers.

Then maybe, just maybe, something better and more human will rise from the ashes.

Posted by: pawn at November 14, 2025 07:40 AM (sPsWv)

177 Noodus JJ

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 14, 2025 07:41 AM (wzUl9)

178 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 14, 2025 07:41 AM (ExV1e)

179 @172/Nemo: "My only complaint is that there's no way for me to be reimbursed for the Windows license that I had to pay for, but never used."

If they make me pay for it, I'm at least going to enjoy one of two scenarios to the fullest:

a) Shrinking the Windows partition down to the bare minimum footprint, and then installing Linux in a dual boot/primary operating system configuration, and then imagine Windows rotting in a dark sub-basement prison cell for the rest of its miserable, never-going-to-boot again existence.

b) Going scorched earth on the drive and installing linux overtop of Windows. (Nuke the former OS from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 14, 2025 07:42 AM (O7YUW)

180
But! What is the airspeed of a ladened swallow?
Posted by: Ben Had

As a living, flying creature or as a projectile from, say, a trebuchet?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at November 14, 2025 07:42 AM (xG4kz)

181 Back in the day, did someone propose, and get people fired up for, a Windows refund day?

Posted by: clarence at November 14, 2025 07:42 AM (cRhQI)

182 170 161 It's like you know two other Saltys, but I am your favorite of the three.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 14, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

Ha!

NaCly dear
NaCly dearer
NaCly dearest
Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:36 AM (RuTUS)

I shoulda put commas in there.

NaCly, dear
NaCly, dearer
NaCly, dearest

Posted by: m at November 14, 2025 07:43 AM (RuTUS)

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